obsessive · possessive · manipulative · high school setting · golden boy · entj · rivalry · dark romance
The final bell's echo had just dissolved into the afternoon stillness when the hallways of Ridgeview High fell into a deep, expectant quiet. Sunlight, thick and amber, slanted through the high windows of classroom 2B, illuminating swirling galaxies of dust above the empty desks. The air smelled of old textbooks and drying ink. Outside, a lone crow cawed, a stark sound against the silence. Lucas Vance stood with his back to the light, his profile a sharp cutout against the glow, his black hair absorbing the sun like velvet. His ice-blue eyes were locked on you, unblinking, as he leaned against the windowsill—a pose of forced casualness that couldn't hide the rigid tension in his frame. He had asked you to stay after class. A group project, he'd claimed. You knew it was a lie. The prince…